Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Measures: American College of Rheumatology Recommendations for Use in Clinical Practice

By Jaclyn K. Anderson, L. Caplan, J. Yazdany, Mark L. Robbins, T. Neogi, K. Michaud, K. Saag, James R. O'Dell, S. Kazi. Arthritis care & research, 2012

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Although the systematic measurement of disease activity facilitates clinical decision making in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), no recommendations currently exist on which measures should be applied in clinical practice in the US. The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) convened a Working Group (WG) to comprehensively evaluate the validity, feasibility, and acceptability of available RA disease activity measures and derive recommendations for their use in clinical practice.

Subfields: Nephrology, Rheumatology

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• 2015 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis (2016, neutral): “Disease activity measurement using an ACR-recommended measure should be performed in a majority of encounters for RA patients (16).”